In 1441 a visiting bishop found the monastery to be dilapidated and in debt.
My remarks, which some bishops found offensive, were deadly accurate.
However, five years later the bishop found himself in trouble with the papacy.
The Irish-born bishop found a scattered Catholic population of possibly 700.
Stangl left for Damascus, where the bishop found him a job in a textile factory.
He said the bishops had found today's discussions "rewarding," even exhilarating after more than a year burdened by the sexual abuse controversy.
But local bishops, municipal officials and others can find such a report more of a burden than a blessing.
The second diocesan bishop found the diocese in a somewhat ailing financial state.
The new bishop finds her a bad sign of old sinful ways.
The bishop could not have found a more inopportune time for such an announcement.